{"id":7236,"date":"2022-04-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-03T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=7236"},"modified":"2022-03-23T14:40:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T18:40:15","slug":"another-good-read-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/another-good-read-3\/","title":{"rendered":"ANOTHER GOOD READ"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For gun collectors and students of firearms, the Colt brand holds a special place. Frankly, the same is true for those interested in the history of American manufacturing and marketing. I\u2019ve often thought that the history of Colt would be an instructive read in Harvard Business Review.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this space in the past, we\u2019ve reviewed two books by Gurney Brown, a heavily-credentialed authority on the topic. Now comes his third book on the brand and the products, \u201cColt\u2019s Double Action Revolvers: the Post-War Era.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This is where I came in, so to speak.  I\u2019m a \u201cbaby boomer,\u201d born in 1948. As a little boy, I pored over my dad\u2019s 1947 Stoeger Gun Bible, and Mr. Brown\u2019s new book gives me flashbacks.  It contains reprints of Colt catalogs over the long period in question, and while that might look redundant to the casual observer, a shooter in my age bracket sees it sort of as time travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a coffee table book, to be sure, rich with lavish color photography and commensurately priced ($84.00).\u00a0\u00a0It doesn\u2019t have as much historical detail from the engineering side as, say, the work of my late friend Larry Wilson, the famed Colt historian.\u00a0\u00a0That said, though, it does have some nuggets.\u00a0\u00a0Brown\u2019s description of the legendary Colt Python and the men who developed it jibes with what I learned at Colt\u2019s in the 1970s when those guys were still alive for me to interview for the magnum (no pun intended) opus on that gun that was published in\u00a0American<\/em>\u00a0Handgunner<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been a Colt collector and a gun writer for a long time now, but this new book still had some surprises for me.  For example, I had not realized that at midpoint in the Twentieth Century when Colt introduced the first lightweight aluminum frame handguns, the Commander semiautomatic and the Cobra revolver, the company had originally called those the Zephyr series.  Further research shows that this terminology may have been applied primarily to advertising for foreign sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The saying in gun collecting is that the wise person will invest in books about the guns before investing in the guns themselves.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ll give that advice a thumbs-up, and the same thumbs-up to \u201cColt\u2019s Double Action Revolvers: The Post-War Era.<\/a>\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Amazon<\/a> will get you there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For gun collectors and students of firearms, the Colt brand holds a special place. Frankly, the same is true for those interested in the history of American manufacturing and marketing. I\u2019ve often thought that the history of Colt would be an instructive read in Harvard Business Review. In this space in the past, we\u2019ve reviewed two […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7237,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7236"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7236\/revisions\/7242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}